By studying packets of melanin pigments (melanosomes) in feathers from today’s birds, Jakob Vinther, a paleontology doctoral student at Yale University, and his colleagues produced a model that can predict the colors of feathered dinosaurs. The melanosome patterns in the feathered-dinosaur fossils can be seen under a scanning electron microscope. Anchiornis huxleyi is the first dinosaur whose color scheme has been completely decoded.